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"Radar Contact Lost: The Podcast" will discuss the tragic circumstances involved with some of the worst airplane crashes. When weather conditions are at fault or are a contributing factor to the accident (as is so often the case), the meteorology will be examined and explained. Hosted by a meteorologist with 40 years of professional experience including U.S. Air Force, broadcast and commercial meteorology. The Radar Contact Lost team includes experts from the fields of commercial meteorology, commercial aviation and air traffic control.
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S4E1 What is Turbulence and Why is Everybody Scared to Death About it?
Send a textOn July 30, 2025, Delta Airlines Flight 56, an Airbus A330-900, carrying 275 passengers and 13 crew, was cruising at about 37,000 feet/11,300 meters over the high plains region of south…
S3E6 When British Cadets Fell from the Oklahoma Sky
Send a textIt was Saturday morning, February 20, 1943. The morning fog lay thick over the prairie of northern Texas and the rolling hills of southeastern Oklahoma, clinging to the fields and tree…
S3E5 When TWA Flight 6963 Crashed While Trying to Find a Dark Airport
Send a textOn Saturday, December 28, 1946, a Lockheed Constellation airliner, known as the Cairo Skychief, was beginning the landing sequence at Shannon Airport on the western coast of Ireland. It…
S3E4 When UPS Flight 1354 Crashed into the Ground More Than a Mile from the Runway
Send a textIt was the early morning hours of Wednesday, August 14, 2013, when a United Parcel Service cargo jet slammed into the ground about one mile short of the runway at the…
S3E3 When Trans Canada Flight 810-9 Was on Fire, Losing Altitude and Lost Over the Cascade Mountains
Send a textThe plane at the center of this episode of Radar Contact Lost was in a bad way: One engine was on fire – there were three others, but the plane was struggling to maintain altitude. In…
S3E2 When a Quiet Neighborhood Next to an Airport Became a Scene of Fire, Horror and Devastation
Send a textIt was a little after 4 o’clock in the afternoon, on Friday, July 9th, 1982, when Pan Am Flight 759, a B-727 carrying 138 passengers and 7 crew members, began to climb from the runway at…
S3E1 When Confusion, Complacency and Bad Decisions Took 28 Lives
Send a textThe first significant snowfall of the season had just begun in central Colorado. At Denver's Stapleton International Airport, Continental Flight 1713 began to accelerate down the runway…
S2E7 When Weather Wasn’t Even Mentioned in the NTSB Investigation Report
Send a textThis episode is about the crash of a small, twin-engine plane: a Beechcraft Baron 58. This crash occurred on April 22, 2019 in the Texas Hill Country, about an hour northwest (by car) from…
S2E6 When Marine One Landed on a High School Football Field in Dense Fog
Send a textIn what is a podcast series first - and perhaps last - for Radar Contact Lost, this episode does not tell the story of a tragic plane crash, but rather the intricate details of the landing…
S2E5 When Typhoon Bess Took an Air Force Hurricane Hunter Crew Over the South China Sea
Send a textOn October 12th, 1974, an Air Force weather reconnaissance Hurricane Hunter aircraft crashed into the South China Sea while investigating Typhoon Bess, taking the lives of the six crew…
S2E4 When Winter Survival Skills and a Little Bit of Luck Overpowered Mountain Wave Turbulence, Severe Icing and a Winter Storm
Send a textOn Tuesday morning, December 5, 1978, 22 people were rescued off the side of a high Colorado mountain in the southern regions of the Rocky Mountains. They had survived the frigid night at…
S2E3 When A Snowy Crash Silenced the Voices of Early Rock and Roll, aka "The Day the Music Died"
Send a textOn February 3, 1959, a small, single-engine, 4-passenger plane took off from a remote airfield in rural Iowa. It was after midnight. It was snowing. It was windy. Moments later, the plane…
S2E2 When Colgan Air Flight 3407 Fell Out of the Sky in Buffalo, New York
Send a textOn the evening of February 12, 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 was on final approach to Runway 23 at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Buffalo, New York. It was dark, it was…
S2E1 When a Russian Airliner Flew Into Cuban Power Lines
Send a textOn final approach to Havana’s José Martí International Airport in 1977, the Aeroflot Ilyushin IL-62M with 69 people on board, descended below the clouds and the pilot immediately was…
S1E11 When a Boeing 707 Broke Apart in Mid-air Near Mt. Fuji
Send a textAt just before 2 o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, March 5, 1966, British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 911, took off from Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport. Bound for Hong…
S1E10 When a Volcano Silenced a Boeing 747 High Over the Indian Ocean
Send a text“When a Volcano Silenced a Boeing 747 Over the Indian Ocean," is the heart-stopping tale of a commercial jetliner – a Boeing 747 – that, contrary to every other episode in this podcast…
S1E9 When a Helicopter Crash Silenced ‘Number One' - The Story Behind the Stevie Ray Vaughan Helicopter Crash
Send a textThis episode is about the 1990 crash of a Bell JetRanger helicopter that was carrying a pilot and four passengers. The helicopter crashed into a ski slope at night and in the fog, killing…
S1E8 When Eastern Airlines Flight 66 Crashed Moments from Landing at JFK International Airport, Part 2
Send a textThis is Part 2 of 2. On a summer day in 1975, Eastern Airlines Flight 66 crashed just yards away from its intended runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport near New York City.…
S1E8 When Eastern Airlines Flight 66 Crashed Moments from Landing at JFK International Airport, Part 1
Send a textPart 1 of 2. On a summer day in 1975, Eastern Airlines Flight 66 crashed just yards away from its intended runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport near New York City. Witnesses at…
S1E7 When the B-52 Lost Its Tail and Crashed into Elephant Mountain
Send a textIn 1963, there was an unusual crash of a U.S. Air Force B-52 Bomber. The plane, while attempting to escape severe turbulence, lost its vertical stabilizer and rudder – essentially losing…
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Radar Contact Lost: The Podcast has published 27 episodes since November 2022, covering topics in Aviation, Earth Sciences.
Radar Contact Lost: The Podcast is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 53m.
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